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Thank you for your service in banning the shit out of this pedo

Both sever and instance have multiple meanings when it comes to deploying Lemmy though.

An instance is running Lemmy publicly, but also just running the APU creates an instance of that API. To scale, you’d probably run multiple instances of the web API.

Same applies to server, but worse. You could also call the web API a web server. You could also call a VM a server. You could also call the physical machine a VM is on a server.

When it comes to naming stuff, it’s best to find something unambiguous if it’s a core defining thing you want to tell people about. Private corps do this to build a “brand”, which is still a valuable thing for open projects so that they can gain adoption.

High Availability stans are angry about your question.

Basically… both options are ambiguous. Would be best if they used a more unique name. Like a burrow (many lemmings build burrows).

This is 100% true but there also aren’t really any reliable alternatives for long-term firmware support. It’s either private companies offering 2-4 years or a somewhat open alternative whose longevity as a company and support capabilities (dev support) are unproven.

I’d say it mostly comes down to whether you want a phone you can tinker with and that supports a slightly better approach or something with the benefits of mainstream adoption and support from ROMs like GrapheneOS.

They just pay a vendor for it and don’t care about the things you do.

It’s a good one. You can stuff cash in an envelope to pay for it if you want.

I’ve never used Temu and for all I know they’re questionable, but this article is not itself very credible. It’s heavy on uncited economic assertions, makes a hackneyed national security argument, and is actually very light on the technical security details. Plus it suggests nonsense like TikTok not requiring the android.permission.INTERNET permission, lol.

On their “About” page they gladly announce that they’re a private company hired by big corps and finance bros so on, and they have an unexplained focus on China. I suspect they take money to do hit jobs.

I’d be interested to see a security comparison between, say, Temu, Amazon, and Facebook apps.

Gotta purge the right people